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Wall St. funds flirt with farmland
- Progressive Farmer
- 14 June 2016
Wall Street remains enamored with US and international farmland, speakers at a Farm Foundation meeting in Louisville said last week.
Les préconisations des Églises européennes pour la sécurité
- La Croix
- 14 June 2016
La Commission des épiscopats de la Communauté européenne souhaite que l’Europe lutte contre l’accaparement des terres cultivables et promeut des pratiques agricoles « à petite échelle ».
Argentina: Bajo la consigna de luchar contra la extranjerización de tierras se presentó el Movimiento Campesino de Liberación
- Misiones Online
- 14 June 2016
Advirtieron que la presencia en la provincia de empresas como Arauco (ex Alto Paraná) atenta contra la soberanía alimentaria y el desarrollo de agricultura familiar.
Land grabs soar, worsen land conflicts and climate change: Report
- teleSUR
- 14 June 2016
Industrial agriculture and financial sectors are hand-in-hand worsening climate change and then profiting from it, with an unprecedented number of land grabs over the last eight years.
Global farmland deals now cover area the size of Finland: campaigners
- Reuters
- 14 June 2016
Global investors have spent more than $90 billion buying agricultural lands the size of Finland in deals criticized by rights groups for displacing small farmers, according to research published on Tuesday.
Land reform and food sovereignty
- Nyéléni newsletter
- 14 June 2016
Capital is appropriating our territories. Hence, we must respond by turning the struggle for land into a struggle for territory.
Report finds big ag's global land grab expanding to new frontiers
- Common Dreams
- 14 June 2016
While 'food security-driven land grabbing' has subsided in recent years, 'plain old profit-driven agribusiness expansion is now the dominant agenda'.
The global farmland grab in 2016: how big, how bad?
- GRAIN
- 14 June 2016
Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.
Agriculture : La Chine à l'assaut des terres françaises
- ARTE
- 13 June 2016
Les chinois se lancent dans l'acquisition de cultures céréalières en France. Rencontre avec un agriculteur qui se mobilise pour alerter les autorités des menaces de ces investissements.
Maroc : Evaluation de l’opération de partenariat public privé autour des terres agricoles de l’Etat
- Ministère de l'Agriculture
- 13 June 2016
111.000 ha de terres agricoles relevant du domaine privé de l’Etat ont fait l'objet de contrats de location de longue durée (17 à 40 ans) au profit des promoteurs
IFC Supports Agribusiness in Ukraine with A New Investment in Astarta
- IFC
- 13 June 2016
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will provide a debt financing package to Astarta, a leading agricultural producer, as part of broader efforts to support Ukraine's farming sector and spur economic development in the country.
Ethiopian China-backed sugar-export push hits cash, design snags
- Bloomberg
- 13 June 2016
Ethiopia’s development of Chinese-backed sugar plants in the country’s south, part of a plan to become one of the world’s top 10 exporters, is struggling because of a lack of funding and technical expertise, a research group said.